Car-coupling



(No Model.)

J.. H. EAKINS.

GAR COUPLING.

No. 413,179. Patented 0013.22, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

J OIIN II. EAKINS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,179, dated Qcoober 22, 1889.

Application filed October 29, 1888 Serial No. 289,464. (No model.)

To all who/rt it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. EAKINS, of the city of Detroit, in the county of Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Couplers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in car-couplers; and it consists in the details of construction described in the accompanying specification, and pointed out in the claim.

My invention is to be used with and is in the nature of an improvement upon the invention patented to N. Marion Jacobs by United States Letters Patent No. 276,183, of April 2%, 1883. I attain said objects in the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is an isometric view of the front- 1 extending at right angles thereto, and is journaled in bearings D D D D D. A loop M is formed at the center of the bar A, having the portion of it which is farthest from said bar twisted to form a smaller loop 0, which serves to retain the end of the chain B in position. The loop M and arms E E are in the same plane and extend in opposite directions from the bar A. B is a chain connecting the loop M with the conpling-pin I.

J is a link of the chain 13. Said link is twisted at the top to form an eye N,by which it is secured to the chain B. The link J is made of springy metal, an d is cut through the center at its lower end.

F G are the bent rod and chain of the Jacobs coupler, above referred to.

P is a draw-head; I,a coupling-pin. A hole R is pierced through the upper end of the coupling-pin.

The chain 13 is connected to the couplingpin I by forcing the two legs of the link J apart at the lower end of said link passing the head of the pin between said legs and allowing thelegs to spring together, the lower part of said link passing through the hole R in the head of the coupling-pin.

The cars are uncoupled by turning down the arms E, thus raising the loop and withdrawing the coupling-pin "from engagement with the link H.

Having fully described my invention, whatl claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

The rod A, provided with handles E E at its ends supported in bearings horizontally across the end of a car, said rod being bent to form at its center the loop M, and the loop O at the part of the loop M which is farthest from said rod, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN H. EAKINS.

Witnesses:

ALEXANDER BROWN, ELLIOTT J. STODDARD. 

